“Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.”

— - Goa

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“Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity”
veritas norma sui et falsi est

Baruch Spinoza book Ethics

Part II, Prop. XLIII, Scholium
Ethics (1677)

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes.”

Max Wertheimer (1880–1943) Co-founder of Gestalt psychology

Source: "On Truth," 1934, p. 28 (1961 edition)

“Don't be a slave of falsity which isn't helping you while truth which can help you is ready to be your servant.”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

Letter to Anthony Collins (29 October 1703) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1726#lf0128-09_head_098

“In society's eyes the virtue of saying the right thing at the right time is more important that the virtue of telling the whole truth, or even of telling the truth at all.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“You should always tell the truth, she thought, not because one lie leads to another, but rather because one lie could so easily lead you to that terrifying position from which, with just the help of a random dream, you can see, both back and ahead, the morass where truth and falsity are simply, for you, indistinguishable.”

Samuel R. Delany book Triton

Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 7 “Tiresias Descending, or Trouble on Triton” (p. 329)

“[Atheism] believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.”

Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) American activist

The Philosophy of Atheism

“To sum up all these steps, each of which is very lengthy and complex, we will have put the game of truth back in the network of constraints and dominations. Truth, I should say rather, the system of truth and falsity, will have revealed the face it turned away from us for so long and which is that of its violence.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Source: Lectures on the Will to Know (1970), p. 4

“So every virtue, so our grasp of truth”

Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game (1943)

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